-Dr. Lars Lindholm

chair, Sweden's Umeå University

Department of PublicHealth and Clinical Medicine

in a Merck Sharp & Dohme-sponsored press conference

"We are now finding type 2 diabetes in the younger age group and it is said that in a few years time, type 2 diabetes in the young will be more common than type 1 diabetes and this is due to 'Nintendonization' of our young population."

-Dr. Augusto Litonjua

noted endocrinologist, 11th Servier Lecture

"If you double your proteinuria, you double your risk of progressing to ESRD. Similarly, if you halve your proteinuria, you halve [that] risk."

-Dr. Robert Atkins

president, International Society of Nephrology

speaking at the 14th Asian Colloquium of Nephrology

"I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless, the poison is in the sugar."

-Stanislaw Lee

Polish writer, in Unkempt Thoughts

"Many a diabetic has stayed alive by stealing the bread denied him by his doctor."

-Martin H. Fischer

German-born US physician and author

"Let me describe the diabetic diet-it is something that is well quantified and well qualified, according to individual need. Meaning to say, my neighbor's diabetic diet is not applicable to me."

-Ms. Joan Sumpio

Nutritionist-Dietitians Association of the Philippines

"In the Philippines, when it comes to marijuana, the government destroys the crops, executes the pushers, rehabilitates the users. When it comes tobacco, they subsidize the crop, exonerate the pushers, and they blame the users."

-Dr. Daniel Tan

pulmonologist, president of the Tobacco-Free Philippines Foundation, speaking at the 16th annual convention of the Philippine Society of Medical Oncology

"People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great."

-Dr. James Watson

American biologist and Nobel laureate, talking about different uses for genetic engineering